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What Is The Best Programming Language For Your Web Product?

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Ievgen Kuzminov http://stdout.in @iJackUA 7+ years in Web Development Ruby Team Lead in MobiDev Author of http://rwdtow.stdout.in

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Dilemma How do we choose programming language for a product ? ❏ There is no “bad” languages ❏ The “best” lang - is the lang you know! ❏ Ecosystem does matter

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Speed vs Quality vs Price Requests per Second in “Hello World” has nothing to do here...

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Recent decade of The Web Dev

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The World Has Changed

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WAT? ❏ Backend ~> Frontend ❏ Relational ~> Denormalized ❏ Majestic Monolith ~> Microservices ❏ Static ~> Realtime ❏ a lot more ...

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A new choice ❏ Application criterias ❏ Ecosystem: packages, tools, community ❏ Evolution roadmap ❏ A bit of personal “taste”

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Master of “yellow” titles ❏ PHP is not so awful ❏ Ruby is not so awesome ❏ Node.JS is not so almighty

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Master of “yellow” titles ❏ PHP is not so awful ❏ Ruby is not so awesome ❏ Node.JS is not so almighty ❏ “This city needs a hero”

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Language

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Language ❏ Evolution ❏ Syntax ❏ DSL ❏ Metaprogramming

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Language ❏ Execution flow (sync, async) ❏ Performance ❏ Concurrency ❏ Debug

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Ecosystem

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Ecosystem ❏ Packages ❏ Web frameworks ❏ Tests ❏ Daemons ❏ Deployment ❏ IDE

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Human Resources

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Human Resources ❏ Entry level. Familiarity. ❏ Skills ❏ Poka-yoke ❏ Hiring

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❏ Low entry barrier ❏ Bigger market ❏ Cheaper Developers: ❏ Pure PHP ~> Frameworks ❏ Harder to filter skilled devs NB!

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❏ Quick start with Rails ❏ MVP oriented ❏ Harder to scale Developers: ❏ Solely Rails oriented ❏ Easier to filter skilled devs NB!

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❏ Aimed to API/Realtime ❏ Node.JS is everywhere ❏ Harder to maintain backend Developers: ❏ Come from Frontend ❏ Closer to Full-Stack NB!

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Dark Horses of Web Development

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Elixir, Go, Closure and others ❏ Compiled (fast) ❏ Much better performance ❏ Close to system level ❏ Functional approaches ❏ Multi-core concurrency

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❏ Erlang + OTP ❏ Functional ❏ Ruby-like syntax ❏ Friendly web framework ❏ Metaprogramming ❏ Scaling ❏ Fault tolerance NB! http://elixir-lang.org

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A new choice (once again!) ❏ Application criterias ❏ Ecosystem: packages, tools, community ❏ Evolution roadmap ❏ A lot of personal “taste”

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Brief conclusion ❏ PHP: “classic” web portal ❏ Ruby: web portal + background jobs ❏ Node.JS: isomorphic app, API + SPA ❏ Elixir: your next “world class” pet-project

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Thank you! [email protected] http://stdout.in @iJackUA Questions ?